What is This?

Welcome to Gameplan for Growth: Our 2024 Comprehensive Planning Effort

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If we’re to become a championship city, it’s going to take teamwork. What can we do together to overcome our challenges? How can we invest our talents and resources to build a stronger, more prosperous community?

 

Growth, development and economic opportunity. Transportation options for everyone. Better city services and preservation of the good bones that strengthen downtown and our historic neighborhoods.

 

That's the field we’re playing on. And we’re playing to win.

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Taking Bessemer's Plan 2040 to the next level

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You may recall 2020-21 when the Bessemer community created Vision 2040, the broad summary of our "vision, mission, values, strategic areas of focus, and specific goals" for the next 20 years. Gameplan for Growth, the comprehensive planning initiative now underway, is a follow up to that effort: taking the what of Vision 2040 and developing the how — augmenting our vision for the future with policies and actions that can bring it to life.

 

Like a gameplan, a Comprehensive Plan is all about strategy, laying out our intentions for future growth policy, transportation, infrastructure, public services, and preservation. You'll have multiple opportunities to contribute, both online and in-person, as we move from an affirmed vision for the future to strategies and action steps to get us where we need to be.

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Take a look around, learn more about the process, share information with your neighbors, and come be a part of it. Together we can lay out a gameplan for creating a championship city.